Midterms but I'm actually just vibing.
Tuesday, 8 April 2025 06:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
temrisI've never realized how studying for your courses daily actually makes midterms easier for you. I only needed to review my notes and otherwise, these past two days (since my 4-day-long midterm week) has just been filled with waiting for the exam hour to arrive. I'm serious.
I had like two hours of waiting for my Spanish exam, and I literally watched the last half of an Astérix LA movie and finished it.
Took three exams today, and now I only have 4 other exams left. And I also finished the book I've been reading to pass the time today too, so I would say today was really productive lol.
I'm not sure if I've ever written it here, but I really enjoy Harlequin books and manga adapted from it. It's like my guilty pleasure, but not super guilty. I just enjoy an easy-read sometimes that's not too complicated when I'm trying to ignore my instructor during class, or if I'm waiting for the bus to arrive... I like romance, so they're perfect for me, idc.
So now that I'm kind of obsessed with Augustus, I wanted to find some Ancient Rome romance books. I wasn't surprised when nearly all of them were gladiator romance, something I ESPECIALLY do NOT want.
I'm not trying to "be different", but gladiators just never did it for me. I mean, sweat glistening, dropping on their skin IS HOT and all, but I don't really think anything else of them. I've never seen the movies about them either HAHA. I'm more interested in soldiers, and I've actually found one that had one! So I started reading it and here are my thoughts. (crossposted from my goodreads)
"Her Roman Protector" by Milinda Jay
The plot is not super good. And the writing, I found a bit choppy at the start, but you get used to it and it does get a better later on. We would read about what the characters think first, and then we read them say it out loud. There were too much repeating of that. Point-of-view changes showing us different sides BUT CONSEQUENTLY is not something I enjoy, and I think it blocks any kind of mystery and anticipation that could have been built otherwise.
I also didn't like the latter half mostly because I thought the "conflict" was already resolved RIGHT AT THE BEGINNING idk? And it didn't make sense to me as to why she was so angry suddenly? But anyway.
The pay-off was also RIIIGHTTT at the very end and we couldn't see a lot of their happy, romantic moments unfortunately. I think the author should have given us some more time instead of ending the story right when he finally confessed his love LIKE?!?! OK.
Besides that, to talk about history. Now, I'm not a person who's so adamant about historical accuracy however, this story apparently takes time during the rule of Claudius, probably 10 years or something after Jesus was killed... and somehow every good guy we meet is Christian...? I thought it took like 80-90 years until it was even recognized as a separate religion like okay. I thought it would have been even better if the lead was a pagan but still fell in love with the Christian girl idk it could have created a different stake as well. I think it just makes the storyline dull with how nearly everyone "on our side" is a Christian -- tbf, one was a Jew lmao.
I had like two hours of waiting for my Spanish exam, and I literally watched the last half of an Astérix LA movie and finished it.
Took three exams today, and now I only have 4 other exams left. And I also finished the book I've been reading to pass the time today too, so I would say today was really productive lol.
I'm not sure if I've ever written it here, but I really enjoy Harlequin books and manga adapted from it. It's like my guilty pleasure, but not super guilty. I just enjoy an easy-read sometimes that's not too complicated when I'm trying to ignore my instructor during class, or if I'm waiting for the bus to arrive... I like romance, so they're perfect for me, idc.
So now that I'm kind of obsessed with Augustus, I wanted to find some Ancient Rome romance books. I wasn't surprised when nearly all of them were gladiator romance, something I ESPECIALLY do NOT want.
I'm not trying to "be different", but gladiators just never did it for me. I mean, sweat glistening, dropping on their skin IS HOT and all, but I don't really think anything else of them. I've never seen the movies about them either HAHA. I'm more interested in soldiers, and I've actually found one that had one! So I started reading it and here are my thoughts. (crossposted from my goodreads)
"Her Roman Protector" by Milinda Jay
The plot is not super good. And the writing, I found a bit choppy at the start, but you get used to it and it does get a better later on. We would read about what the characters think first, and then we read them say it out loud. There were too much repeating of that. Point-of-view changes showing us different sides BUT CONSEQUENTLY is not something I enjoy, and I think it blocks any kind of mystery and anticipation that could have been built otherwise.
I also didn't like the latter half mostly because I thought the "conflict" was already resolved RIGHT AT THE BEGINNING idk? And it didn't make sense to me as to why she was so angry suddenly? But anyway.
The pay-off was also RIIIGHTTT at the very end and we couldn't see a lot of their happy, romantic moments unfortunately. I think the author should have given us some more time instead of ending the story right when he finally confessed his love LIKE?!?! OK.
Besides that, to talk about history. Now, I'm not a person who's so adamant about historical accuracy however, this story apparently takes time during the rule of Claudius, probably 10 years or something after Jesus was killed... and somehow every good guy we meet is Christian...? I thought it took like 80-90 years until it was even recognized as a separate religion like okay. I thought it would have been even better if the lead was a pagan but still fell in love with the Christian girl idk it could have created a different stake as well. I think it just makes the storyline dull with how nearly everyone "on our side" is a Christian -- tbf, one was a Jew lmao.
